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Prosaic vs Tedious - What's the difference?

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Prosaic is a related term of tedious.


As adjectives the difference between prosaic and tedious

is that prosaic is pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose while tedious is boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.

prosaic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
  • The tenor of Eliot's prosaic work differs greatly from that of his poetry.
  • (of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
  • I was simply making the prosaic point that we are running late.
  • (usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring; humdrum; dull; unimaginative.
  • His account of the incident was so prosaic that I nodded off while reading it.
    She lived a prosaic life.

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    Antonyms

    * poetic

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    tedious

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year= , author=Arthur Schopenhauer , title=The Art of Literature , chapter=2 citation , passage=A work is objectively tedious' when it contains the defect in question; that is to say, when its author has no perfectly clear thought or knowledge to communicate. For if a man has any clear thought or knowledge in him, his aim will be to communicate it, and he will direct his energies to this end; so that the ideas he furnishes are everywhere clearly expressed. The result is that he is neither diffuse, nor unmeaning, nor confused, and consequently not ' tedious .}}
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  • , year= , author=Arthur Schopenhauer , title=The Art of Literature , chapter=2 citation , passage=The other kind of tediousness is only relative: a reader may find a work dull because he has no interest in the question treated of in it, and this means that his intellect is restricted. The best work may, therefore, be tedious' subjectively, ' tedious .}}

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    * tediously * tediousness

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